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Comment Re:Cool Proof of concept but... (Score 1) 129

by ravenben on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:12AM (#59763688) Attached to: Activate this 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop

Hmm, you're kinda reading it wrong.
This is a prototype for an academic research paper. It's not on the market, nor is it being sold anywhere. Plus the NYT article makes fairly broad statements not meant to be interpreted literally as precise measurement results.

The attenuation of low power ultrasonics is very very fast. The signal is not "audible" even to those sensitive more than a few inches away from the actual bracelet speakers.

Comment Re:Source to noise... (Score 1) 129

by ravenben on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:07AM (#59763682) Attached to: Activate this 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop

The design is actually fairly generalizable.
Today's commodity mics generally use the same or very similar materials.
You're right that one set of harmonics does not address all, but perhaps 2 or 3 might address 99% of the available mics on the market.

Million Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Dupes Social Networks 170

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @04:04AM from the and-you-thought-gold-farming-was-bad dept.

New submitter bowlinearl writes "Three weeks ago Slashdot featured a story on the Chinese Water Army. A new study from researchers at UCSB delves even deeper into the problem of crowdturfing (full disclosure: I am one of the authors of the study). The study reveals that evil crowdsourcing services in China are a multi-million dollar industry, and that the number of jobs and the amount of money are growing exponentially. Hundreds of thousands of workers are involved, including a small contingent of career crowdturfers who each manage hundreds of accounts on social networks. The researchers observed the behavior of workers and the unwitting users who click on the generated spam by infiltrating the two largest crowdsourcing sites in China. However, crowdturfing isn't confined to China: the researchers discovered crowdsourcing sites in the U.S. that are 95% astroturf, as opposed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which actively polices itself, and is only 12% astroturf."

Submission + - Million Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Dupes Social (technologyreview.com) 2

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bowlinearl

on Monday December 12, 2011 @03:32PM

bowlinearl writes: "Three weeks ago Slashdot featured a story on the Chinese Water Army. A new study from researchers at UCSB delves even deeper into the problem of crowdturfing (full disclosure: I am one of the authors of the study). The study reveals that evil crowd sourcing services in China are a multi-million dollar industry, and that the number of jobs and the amount of money are growing exponentially. Hundreds of thousands of workers are involved, including a small contingent of career crowdturfers who each manage hundreds of accounts on social networks. The researchers observed the behavior of workers and the unwitting users who click on the generated spam by infiltrating the two largest crowdsourcing sites in China. However, crowdturfing isn't confined to China: the researchers discovered crowdsourcing sites in the U.S. that are 95% astroturf, as opposed to Amazon's Mechanical Turk which actively polices itself, and is only 12% astroturf."

Comment bargain shopping (Score 1) 388

by ravenben on Monday July 04, 2005 @12:30PM (#12980067) Attached to: Shopping Online

I'm surprised no one has mentioned dealsea and bensbargains.net.

These are cooperative shopping sites where people post up deals they find. Just the dell coupons alone make it worth checking out.

lots of ridiculous coupon/rebate deals on a daily basis.

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